Byte and Character String
Processing
Processing of Character Strings
Single Bit Processing in Hexadecimal Fields
The sections above describe the statements that are provided for processing byte and character strings in byte-type and character-type data objects.
Byte-type data objects contain byte strings (or byte sequences) and always have the byte-type data type x or xstring.
Character-type data objects contains character strings (or strings). A character-type data object has either a character-type data type c, d, n, t, stringor it is a structure with purely character-type components.
Note:
As of Release 6.10, you can use any flat structures and byte-type data objects as character strings only outside of Unicode programs. Before Release 6.10, you could use them in all programs.